Richard Artschwager, the painter and sculptor who recently was honored with a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, died on Saturday at 89. His death was confirmed by the Gagosian Gallery.

The celebrated artist created sculptures, paintings and drawings. Although he was sometimes categorized by critics as a minimalist or pop artist, Artschwager's conceptual work was often difficult to classify.

Artschwager's first Whitney retrospective took place in 1988. In an interview with The Times, on the occasion of the show traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown, Artschwager said that the viewer's own experience and interpretations are paramount.

"The artist should go away and disappear. Get the artist out of there and above all tape up his mouth," he said.

Los Angeles will have another opportunity to see the late artist's work when the recent Whitney retrospective, titled "Robert Artschwager!" opens at the Hammer Museum in June. The exhibition features approximately 150 works.

"Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation" headed into the weekend with expectations of a $40 million opening in the U.S. and Canada, but Paramount Pictures on Sunday reported that its Tom Cruise film actually brought in an estimated $56 million.

Fans who saw the last show of U2’s North American tour Friday at Madison Square Garden in New York City had an incredible bit of luck. For one thing, Bill Clinton was in the house, but blessedly refrained from sitting in on saxophone.

Longstanding discord between the families of star singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown erupted again Saturday to mar the memorial service for their daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, Ga.